Spicers is set to expand its sustainable packaging portfolio in Australia following a strategic alliance between its parent company, KPP Group Holdings, and materials innovator Papkot. Read more
Woolworths is kicking sustainable packaging goals as it works towards transitioning its entire Own Brand range to recyclable, compostable or reusable packaging by 2023.
This year’s Packaging Innovation & Design Awards has come and gone, and in a year that saw an unprecedented number of high-quality entries across all categories, Melbourne-based flexible packaging specialist OF Packaging cleaned up, taking out three gold awards during the two-day event.
The Industry Packaging Professional of the Year award recognises and acknowledges the outstanding achievements and significant contributions by an individual currently working in the ANZ packaging industry.
EXCLUSIVE: Part two of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA) was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the awards announced across three Packaging Design of the Year and two Professional of the Year categories.
The Young Packaging Professional of the Year award provides incentive and recognition to young professionals currently working in and seeking to pursue a career in the ANZ packaging industry.
EXCLUSIVE: Part one of the prestigious Packaging Innovation & Design Awards was presented via a virtual ceremony today, with the company awards announced across six Packaging Design of the Year categories: Food; Beverage; Health, Beauty & Wellness; Domestic & Household; Labelling & Decoration, and Outside the Box.
PKN’s May-June issue, sporting a stunning cover that showcases embossing and foiling at its finest, is a bumper edition demonstrating how the packaging industry is stepping up sustainability action in innovation and design, food packaging, and pack and label printing.
Orora will be investing $19 million, including $8 million in government grant funding, to build an advanced glass beneficiation plant at its Gawler glass packaging site in South Australia.
With the recent signing on of Aldi, Coles and Woolworths to the ANZPAC Plastics Pact, the initiative takes a step closer to radically reducing the amount of plastic used on our shelves.
The ANZPAC Plastics Pact has officially launched, uniting businesses, NGOs, and governments across the plastics supply chain behind a series of ambitious 2025 targets to eliminate plastic waste.
EXCLUSIVE: In a triumph for smart packaging, flexo and digital printing, and promotional marketing, Hungry Jack's has launched the biggest ever on-pack campaign, delivered by a cross-industry collaboration between Result Group, TLC Marketing, Multi-color Corporation, Detpak and Hungry Jack's.
The government went big on the 2021-22 budget, with packaging businesses among those set to benefit from the treasurer’s $75bn recovery strategy.
Paper and board packaging manufacturer Detpak has partnered with US-based Eco-Products to bring its range of compostable foodservice packaging to Australia and New Zealand.
In an Australian-first, Colgate-Palmolive has launched a kerbside recyclable tube for its Colgate Smile for Good toothpaste range, and is making its packaging technology available to all competitors.
Packaging giant Amcor has raised its full year profits outlook, as third quarter figures all trend upwards, and its free cashflow tops US$1bn.
At an event in Sydney this week, industry and academia involved in the smart sensing project for HDPE recycling shared progress and key findings of the NSW government backed initiative.